Kate Bush

Posted June 22, 2022, 8:52 p.m.. Nearly 40 years after its release, Kate Bush's single “Running Up That Hill” saw an unexpected resurgence thanks to its ...

We gave the first part of Stranger Things Season 4 an 8 thanks to its ambition. "The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is… Nearly 40 years after its release, Kate Bush’s single “Running Up That Hill” saw an unexpected resurgence thanks to its prominent role in Stranger Things Season 4.

Kate Bush, in a rare interview, has described her return to the top of the music charts as “quite shocking” after Netflix drama “Stranger Things” wowed a ...

“I have a really ancient phone. “I mean, okay, so it’s an awful time on a lot of levels for people. But it’s also a time when incredible things are happening.” But I like that because I spend a lot of time on my laptop,” she said. “Running Up That Hill,” the lead single from “Hounds of Love,” has become the most-streamed song on Spotify in the United States, the UK and globally. But it’s quite shocking really, isn’t it?

Kate Bush's song Running Up That Hill has hit number one in the charts, 37 years after its original release, after the track featured on Stranger Things.

They love each other very much, and the power of the relationship is something that gets in the way. Speaking of the Netflix boom to her back catalogue plays, Bush commented: 'Well it’s just extraordinary. Then finding the Placebo cover after and being more obsessed. But it’s quite shocking really, isn’t it? It’s so exciting. 'Placebo still has the absolute best cover of Running Up That Hill': Fans go wild as rock band shared new video of their Kate Bush cover on Instagram on Wednesday

Kate Bush thinks TikTok "sounds ridiculous". The 63-year-old singer - who is enjoying a career resurgence after 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' ...

The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is… You just have to look a bit harder to find them at the moment.” There’s a whole load of people very dedicated to you in that space.

The 1980s classic 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' grabbed the top spot on charts and a new generation of fans.

"And when I go out during the day, it means I don't have to deal with emails and everyone knows that. But it's also a time when incredible things are happening." "I mean, okay, so it's an awful time on a lot of levels for people.

According to insiders, bosses at the streaming platform have been granted a trademark for 'live theatrical, musical or comedic performance' for their plans. The ...

The singer revealed that she was already a fan of the hit Netflix show and thinks the programme has put the song in a ‘really special place’ in the series. But it’s quite shocking really, isn’t it? It’s so exciting.

Bush's classic song, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), has surged to number one in Britain and elsewhere after featuring prominently in Netflix drama ...

"And when I go out during the day, it means I don't have to deal with emails and everyone knows that. "I have a really ancient phone. "I mean, okay, so it's an awful time on a lot of levels for people.

Kate Bush has recently opened up on her song's successful resurgence in Netflix hit series. According to The Guardian, the singer-songwriter was interviewed ...

“What’s really wonderful I think is that it’s this whole new audience who in a lot of cases, they’ve never heard of me, and I love that. “It’s such a great series, I thought that the track would get some attention, but I just never imagined that it would be anything like this. The crooner mentioned that she was a fan of Netflix series even before her song was included in “Max’s fight for survival scene”.

The legendary singer-songwriter has hit the top of the charts thanks to the Netflix sci-fi series.

‘The Duffer brothers created the series and actually we watched it from the first series onwards, so I was already familiar with the series. You know, as a kind of talisman for Max.’ ‘I thought that the track would get some attention.

Kate Bush loves having a new younger audience but thinks the idea of TikTok is "ridiculous".

The much-loved British singer-songwriter also dwelt on her lockdown experience of binge-watching and gardening, and revealed that she prefers an old-style ...

"And when I go out during the day, it means I don't have to deal with emails and everyone knows that. "I have a really ancient phone. "I mean, okay, so it's an awful time on a lot of levels for people.

Ticket sales for a Kate Bush 'homage' act set for the Empire Music Hall in Belfast have seen a spike this month, thanks to younger fans finding her music ...

Vocalist Mandy Watson is renowned for not trying to mimic Bush on stage, but says that when she performs her music, the characters in the songs take over. She’s one of a kind.” “And, of course, it’s brilliant for Kate Bush that so many young people are discovering her music, my own children included. Cloudbusting has played Belfast’s Empire several times previously, attracting a mainly older audience who were Bush fans first time round. “With ticket sales going the way they are, the gig is going to be a sell-out. Stephen said: “The Cloudbusting show was originally on sale early 2020 for a show in October 2020, rescheduled for July 2021 and then again for July 2022, due to Covid.

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Bush said: I thought that the track would get some attention. Just to feel what it was like, from the other side.” Bush added: “The most difficult thing for me was to be continually in the now because I naturally tend to race ahead in my mind... But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this. According to Bush the song was about “the idea of a man and a woman swapping with each other. The singer has not performed in public since 2014, so it seems unlikely that she will take to the stage at Glastonbury.

The singer spoke on BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' about the renewed popularity of her 1985 hit, 'Running Up That Hill.'

If you’re puzzled as to why the 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill” is sitting atop the UK charts in 2022, you have Netflix’s Stranger Things to thank. I thought that the track would get some attention. “It's just extraordinary,” Bush told presenter Emma Barnett. “It's such a great series.

Stranger Things has put Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" back on the charts, and the singer hopes that new fans are able to forge their own relationships ...

Though Bush still very much thinks of the song as “A Deal with God” — the title she originally intended to give it — in her mind, she emphasized the importance of people being able to take what they want from art. “I mean, there was some great music in the ’80s, but I think it’s an incredibly exciting time we’re in now,” Bush said. In most cases, Vecna psychically stalks his victims from another dimension before pulling them to him and tearing their bodies apart, but Max is able to break free from his thrall thanks to the cassette of “Running Up That Hill” that’s lived in her Walkman all season. “What’s really wonderful, I think, is that this is a whole new audience who, in a lot of cases, they’d never heard of me,” Bush said. Thanks to the popularity of Stranger Things’ music-heavy fourth season and social media, Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” has climbed up to the very top of music charts around the world 37 years after the song initially released. Though Bush was already hooked on Stranger Things long before Netflix and the Duffer brothers called her up, she didn’t expect to ever become involved in the show’s lore, and the experience has all felt very much like “the whole world’s gone mad.”

Her partner of 30 years, guitarist and music producer Dan McIntosh, is as discreet as Kate, and while the pair had their son Albert McIntosh - known as Bertie - ...

Bush's withdrawal from public life is believed to have started as a response to grief that she suffered in the early 1990s. 'It wasn’t designed that way, because I really enjoyed the first set of shows we did,' she said. Director Jimmy Murakami, who shot the video for the album's single King Of The Mountain, told her biographer Mr Thomson: 'I thought she looked fabulous, but she kept bringing up her weight. During her sell-out concerts of 2014 she asked fans not to film her on their mobile phones as she found it 'intrusive.' 'You would never think that she's a big star and she doesn't strike me as the sort of person who's interested in that sort of stuff. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being,' she said. 'I only did just one, in 1979 and 1980, and I think other people gave up on me. She taught herself to play the piano aged 11, then the organ and violin and, by her mid-teens, had composed more than 200 songs. a normal person, rather than live the life of someone in the industry. To us, she's just a delightful and kind friend and neighbour.' He was last seen on stage in 2014, when he performed during Kate's Before the Dawn residency. 'Among other things I have spent the last 12 years being a mother.

Earlier in the year, British indie-rockers the Wombats released their fifth studio album, Fix Yourself, Not The World. Next month, they'll tour the UK, ...

“It’s such a great song, we’re all big Kate Bush fans,” Dan Haggis said during the interview portion. The Wombats – “Running Up That Hill” (Kate Bush Cover) The Wombats – “Running Up That Hill” (Kate Bush Cover)

The cover, which aired this morning (June 24), was performed at the studios of triple j for the Australian broadcaster's 'Like A Version' segment. It marked ...

The band pointed to their own song ‘Greek Tragedy’ achieving a second life through a remix on TikTok as an example. The cover, which aired this morning (June 24), was performed at the studios of triple j for the Australian broadcaster’s ‘Like A Version’ segment. He went on to note the advent of streaming made access to artists from bygone eras possible: “Those great songs will resurge again,” he said.

The Wombats have taken on what could be 2022's song of the year, revisiting Kate Bush's classic 'Running Up That Hill' for triple j's Like A Version series.

Notably, The Wombats’ appearance on triple j’s Like A Version series to cover such a popular song could result in a little bit of history for the station’s Hottest 100 countdown. The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is… Originally released in 1985, ‘Running Up That Hill’ has exploded globally over recent weeks, with the song even managing to reach #1 on the Australian charts.

Kate Bush has given a rare radio interview on the back of her 1985 single of 'Running Up That Hill' rocketing back to the top the US and UK charts.

And I thought, what a lovely way for the song to be used in such a positive way. "It’s an awful time on a lot of levels for people, very difficult... But it’s also a time when incredible things are happening. The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is… “I think they’ve put it in a really special place. After sharing a number of statements about the renewed in the track in recent weeks, Bush made a rare broadcast appearance on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday (22nd June). It is the first time the famously reclusive artist has talked in-depth about the song's resurgence.

Discussing their new cover in a post-performance interview, drummer Dan Haggis said that the band had been “huge Kate Bush fans” for years, but were convinced ...

The Wombats aren’t the only group to reinterpret ‘Running Up That Hill’. The 1985 Hounds of Love single has been covered by everyone from Placebo to metal outfit Within Temptation. More recently, both Halsey and Kim Petras have delivered their own reworks. Since it featured in the latest series of Stranger Things, ‘Running Up That Hill’ has topped the charts in no less than nine countries, including the UK and Australia. As an example, The Wombats pointed to their own track ‘Greek Tragedy’, which was given new life when it was remixed on TikTok: “It’s nice seeing [songs] have their own little life,” said frontman Matthew Murphy. “You can leave them dormant, and then suddenly they’re back again.”

Unearthed documentary reveals Kate Bush upstaged Elton John by accident when she attended his partnership ceremony in 2005.

Thank you so very much for making the song a No 1 in such an unexpected way." "I mean they're not normal songs, none of her songs have been normal," added Elton in the interview." "She’s the most beautiful mystery!! On June 17, 2022, Kate said, "I have to admit I feel really moved by it all. "I mean musician, anybody, they couldn't believe that Kate Bush was there. Fans of Kate Bush loved this unearthed clip and many took to social media to share their delight.